Stacy earned her BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Following business school, she tapped into her flair for invention and began building businesses, launching WebWisher, evaluating businesses as a Resident Entrepreneur at idealab! and eventually launching Stacy Blackman Consulting, the leading admissions consulting advisory.
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Sneak Peek Into What You’ll Learn…
01:49 – Stacy tells us more about her company, Stacy Blackman Consulting.
02:57 – How did Stacy start her company? She shares the detailed steps she took to get started.
05:42 – Stacy takes us back to the beginning of her company and describes how she landed her first client.
09:33 – We learn more about the scale of the impact Stacy Blackman Consulting has working with thousands of clients around the world.
15:38 – What does Stacy think is the best thing about being an entrepreneur? She describes what it has meant in her life.
18:17 – Stacy discusses the biggest challenges she’s had to overcome in order to grow her business.
21:18 – Stacy reveals what she learned from not landing an important partnership.
24:48 – Stacy explains how having her own company empowered her to not have to return to her corporate job after the birth of her first child.
29:50 – Stacy tells us what she does to be the kind of mom to her three kids that she wants to be while also growing her business.
33:50 – Brass Tacks: The lightning round of concrete advice and tips
Quotable quotes:
“[on growing her business] I started to learn that every single thing I did, big and small, helped.”
“A lot of the growth [of the company] and outsourcing was fueled by when I had my children.”
“What I’ve learned is that you gotta show up…relationships matter…getting in the room together, getting to know other people really matters…”
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